Brinda Sarkar
Senior Correspondent at The Economic Times
Brinda Sarkar is a journalist with The Economic Times and writes on careers, HR, workplace trends, leadership, and diversity. Views expressed are personal.
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4 days ago |
timesascent.com | Brinda Sarkar |Sreeradha BasuSreeradha Basu
Companies such as Godrej Consumer Products, Axis Bank, Capgemini, Merck and NatWest are not just expanding hiring from the LGBTQ+ community by partnering with specialised sourcing firms, but also running mentorship initiatives, organising workshops on pronoun usage and gender identity, setting up employee resource groups, as well as support sessions for parents of LGBTQ+ individuals.
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4 days ago |
timesascent.com | Brinda Sarkar |Sreeradha BasuSreeradha Basu |Teena Thacker
For 31-year-old techie Kumar, long hours at work carrying well into the night often led to stress eating, coupled with an occasional drink (or two) to “take off the edge”. The excesses magnified over the weekend, till one day when what he suspected was an episode of indigestion turned out to be a heart attack. Kumar, who doesn’t want to reveal his full name, has now been put on a strict diet by his doctor. He has been asked to cut out all unhealthy food, stop eating out and exercise.
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1 month ago |
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Brinda Sarkar |Prachi Verma |Sreeradha BasuSreeradha Basu
Many of these jobs don’t exist now, some will be radically new avatars of existing jobs, but all will require higher skill levels than those required for today’s most sought-after jobs. What experts across sectors say about the coming jobs revolutionWhere do you see yourself in five years?” Once a common interview question, it is, increasingly, a meaningless one — such is the speed of technological change.
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1 month ago |
timesascent.com | Brinda Sarkar |Prachi Verma |Sreeradha D Basu
"Where do you see yourself in five years?" Once a common interview question, it is, increasingly, a meaningless one — such is the speed of technological change. Most staffing specialists and headhunters say it’s almost impossible to predict what the job market would look like in five years. TOI spoke to experts across sectors to get a fix on what this churn might throw up, in terms of the most valuable entry-level white-collar skillsets in the near future. All answers were deeply caveated.
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1 month ago |
hr.economictimes.indiatimes.com | Brinda Sarkar |Sreeradha D Basu
Trends 3 min read Firms like Lupin, Biocon Biologics, CitiusTech, Cipla, Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, Sanofi, and Novartis are scaling up R&D teams, said industry officials and recruitment firms. These companies are focusing among other things, on research in cancer and targeted therapies, neurology, and rare and metabolic diseases.
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